Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver
while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket

would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates:

The easier it is for people to
remember an instance in which they were betrayed by a friend, the more they

expect such
an event to recur. This best illustrates the impact of:

College students are more likely
to judge a condom as effective when informed that it has a 95 percent

success rate than when told it has a 5 percent failure rate. This best illustrates
the impact of:

Professor Chadwick evaluated a
graduate student's research proposal negatively simply because he had

heard a rumor about the
student's incompetence. When later informed that the rumor had been patently false, the professor's assessment of the student's
research proposal remained almost as negative as ever. This best illustrates:

A computer program designed to
process the information in a psychology textbook and correctly answer

In the English language, adjectives
are typically placed before nouns, as in "white house." This illustrates a

rule of English:

The two-word stage of language
development typically begins at the age of ________ months.

In her research, Professor Kyoto
seeks to identify circumstances in which confirmation bias is especially

likely to impede effective problem solving. Which specialty area does her research best represent?

Arnold had difficulty
recognizing that bullfighting was a sport because it failed to resemble his __ of a sport.

In attempting to solve difficult
sexual assault cases, a police detective frequently reminds himself to focus

investigative
suspicion on the victims' friends and acquaintances. This strategy best illustrates the use of:

Because he erroneously believes
that older workers are not as motivated as younger workers to work hard, a

factory
foreman is especially vigilant for any signs of laziness among his senior workers. His supervision strategy best illustrates:

People are often unable to come
up with the simple solutions to some of the three-jugs problems presented in

the text
because they repeat more complicated solutions that worked in the past. This best illustrates the dynamics of:

A defense attorney emphasizes
to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys

leisure-time
hobbies. Although none of this information is relevant to the trial, it is designed to make the defendant appear to be a typical
member of the local community. The lawyer is most clearly seeking to take advantage of:

Brutus believes that men enjoy
watching professional football and that women are categorically distinct from

men. His
gender stereotypes are so strong, however, that he mistakenly reasons from these premises the illogical conclusion that women
do not enjoy watching professional football. His reasoning difficulty best illustrates:

Maintaining one's conceptions
even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known